I Want To Believe I Am Looking

Still, what I want in my life

is to be willing

to be dazzled -

to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even

to float a little

above this difficult world.

I want to believe I am looking

into the white fire of a great mystery.

I want to believe that the imperfections

are nothing -

that the light is everything.

-Mary Oliver, "The Ponds"

[Photo: August 2013 // Truro, Massachusetts // iphone 5]